Reading Time: 3 minutes As a teaching-based school, we are especially concerned with the aspect of tenure that allows for free expression and flow of ideas in a classroom without fear of reprehension or job loss for professors. “Students benefit from the tenure system because their professors will feel more freedom to talk about controversial ideas in the classroom,” […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes We are concerned that students are dangerously ignorant of jaywalking. Last Monday, a student was life-flighted from in front of the Testing Center to the hospital. He had been struck by a car going 25 MPH while listening to music with headphones. He now has a metal plate in his skull. He was the fourth […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute This year, I have had the opportunity to attend some Utah Valley University classes and to be on campus there on many occasions. The unprofessional attire by the staff there is sub par. Recent articles in the Daily Herald and other media hail the “all Steinway campus” and the dreams and visions for the music […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Some around campus have taken exception to the politics of school administration, criticizing brief appearances by President Matthew Holland at some events, claiming it was face time with the cameras. One has to ask, ‘Is that really what his primary function is?’ Examine the role of the university; its entire existence, especially here, is to […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes America’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy puts us among embarrassing company. With countries like South Korea and Iran, our bigoted bedfellows in banning openly gay and lesbian individuals from serving in the military, we are a shining beacon of discrimination for the rest of the world. Who cares that every NATO nation besides Turkey and […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes The ways in which student fees are handled could not be better. The money is allocated to meet the needs of students. Without the extra fees that students pay, accessibility to computer labs, wireless Internet and even the student center would not be available. Paying student fees, a process designed by the student government, adds […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute As students rush from car to class, they sometimes forget the importance of being safe. Starting last week, many students received a harsh reminder to keep safe when the campus police department started issuing misdemeanor citations for jaywalking. Just like a traffic citation, a citation for jaywalking requires the student, faculty or even community member […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes From roster cut to rotation player? It’s a transition made by few, and it normally takes at least a year – if not more – to see it happen. For soccer’s Kendra Buchanan, it took a week. “I definitely didn’t anticipate it being this great,” Buchanan said. The improbable swing took place […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes On Saturday, Sept. 25, mtvU’s Campus Invasion tour made its first stop at the UCCU Events Center. The concert featured bands 30 Seconds to Mars, New Politics and locals Neon Trees. The concert opened with New Politics, an alternative rock group from Denmark. Its three members, David Boyd, Søren Hansen and Poul Amaliel, blend the […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute This week we sit down with the department chair of the Peace and Justice Studies program, to find out exactly what Peace and Justice Studies is.